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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kainantu in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.9719S, 146.5745WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Kainantu in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 09:12:55 / 9:12 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000e24y. Id of event: us2000e24y. Exact location, longitude 146.5745° East, latitude -5.9719° South, depth = 53.25 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.25 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 23:12:55 / April 11, 2018 @ 11:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae, Kainantu. Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 85 km ENE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.5745° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.9719° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km ENE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-11 23:12:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 01:23:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000e24y Id of event.
Event Code 2000e24y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e24y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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